Lucky chicken with a 5th toe: What’s right and what isn’t

Kennedi Gopalan

Lucky chicken with a 5th toe: What’s right and what isn’t Kindle Edition

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When a fragile chick with an unusual fifth toe falls from the sky, six-year-old Ishvar becomes its only hope. Armed with nothing but ₹10.50 and a fierce desire to help, he faces tough decisions, unexpected truths, and the weight of responsibility far bigger than himself.

A moving story about kindness, bravery, and the quiet miracles found in everyday life.

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Nut Tree Farming for Profit

Pecan nut trees in Kashmir

Nut trees are high-value, long-term assets. Once established, they produce for decades with relatively low annual costs. Here’s a practical profit-focused guide.

1️⃣ Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) ⭐ High ROI

• Climate: Sub-tropical to temperate (Punjab, J&K, Himachal, Uttarakhand)
• Bearing: 6–8 years
• Yield: 20–40 kg/tree
• Income: ₹18–40 lakh/ha/year (mature orchard)
• Why choose it? Strong export demand, premium price, less competition than walnut

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2️⃣ Walnut (Juglans regia) 🌳 Traditional + Export

• Climate: Cold temperate (Kashmir, HP)
• Bearing: 8–10 years
• Yield: 30–60 kg/tree
• Income: ₹10–25 lakh/ha/year
• Note: Needs chilling hours & skilled post-harvest handling

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3️⃣ Almond (Prunus dulcis) 🌸 Early Returns

• Climate: Dry temperate
• Bearing: 3–4 years
• Income: ₹8–20 lakh/ha/year
• Advantage: Faster returns than walnut/pecan

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4️⃣ Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) 🌰 Emerging Crop

• Climate: Cool temperate
• Bearing: 3–5 years
• Income: ₹12–18 lakh/ha/year
• Demand: Chocolate & confectionery industry

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5️⃣ Pistachio (Pistacia vera) 🏜️ Premium Niche

• Climate: Dry, cold winters, hot summers
• Bearing: 7–8 years
• Income: ₹15–30 lakh/ha/year
• Best for: Low rainfall regions with irrigation

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📊 Profit Comparison (Mature Orchards)

Nut Crop	Bearing Time	Avg Profit/ha
Pecan	6–8 yrs	₹18–40 lakh
Walnut	8–10 yrs	₹10–25 lakh
Almond	3–4 yrs	₹8–20 lakh
Hazelnut	3–5 yrs	₹12–18 lakh
Pistachio	7–8 yrs	₹15–30 lakh

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🚜 Key Success Factors

• ✔️ Certified grafted plants
• ✔️ Proper spacing & pruning
• ✔️ Drip irrigation + mulching
• ✔️ Intercropping (saffron, garlic, herbs in early years)
• ✔️ Value addition: kernels, cold-pressed nut oil, export grading

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🌍 Best Regions in India

• Kashmir Valley – Walnut, Pecan, Hazelnut
• Himachal & Uttarakhand – Almond, Walnut
• Punjab & North India plains – Pecan
• Dry cold regions – Pistachio (trial basis)

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✅ Bottom Line

If you want maximum long-term profit with growing global demand, Pecan farming currently offers the best balance of yield, price, and scalability in India—especially compared to walnut.

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Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir PM calls on Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Independent Kashmir not possible: PAJKK leader

Sardar Qayoom Khan, a former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), met with former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on September 22, 2005. 

The meeting was a courtesy call held at Vajpayee's residence, which Sardar Qayoom Khan requested because he was a "big fan" of the former Indian Prime Minister. Khan noted that he had not been able to meet Vajpayee during his 1999 visit to Lahore. 

Key attendees and context of the meeting:

Attendees: Besides Qayoom Khan and Vajpayee, Indian leaders such as Lal Krishna Advani (then BJP president), Jaswant Singh, and Brajesh Mishra were also present.

Context: The meeting occurred while Sardar Qayoom Khan was in New Delhi to participate in "heart-to-heart deliberations" with Kashmiri leaders from the Indian side of the Line of Control, hosted by the Indian Council of World Affairs and the National Panther's Party.

Significance: The meeting was considered a significant diplomatic development, as it was one of the few times major political figures from both sides of the LoC met after several years, as part of broader peace efforts between India and Pakistan. 

Sardar Qayoom Khan was a key figure in the "Intra J&K 'Heart to Heart' Talks" and was the only PAJK leader who had interacted with the BJP leadership, including Vajpayee and Advani, in New Delhi. 

26/11: The Night Mumbai Will Never Forget

26/11 Mumbai Attacks

The night of 26/11
— Mumbai was burning.
Marine Drive was ablaze with fire and blood,
taxis were overturned, hotels were ablaze,
and television studios were filled with a single cry—
"Terrorists... Pakistan... Jihad..."
But one man stood alone on the map of India,
who defined terrorism not by religion but by evidence.
That man was #Hemant_Karkare.

#Flashback
A few months earlier, Karkare had opened a case
that was enough to shake the nation.
The perpetrator of the bloody blasts turned out not to be a Muslim...
but a deep network of saffron fundamentalism was discovered.
When those names first surfaced—
a sadhvi, an army officer, faces of religious organizations—
many faces turned pale.
The media, too, had shouted on the first day:
"This was the new face of terrorism!"
But the very next day, the atmosphere changed.
Some channels went silent,
Some politicians became feverish,
and Karkare began receiving calls from all quarters:
"Leave this case there..."
"These people are big..."
"This is not in the country's interest..."
But Karkare's problem was that
he put the country above the individual.
He began to delve deeper into the case: phone data, the sources of explosives, funding,
meeting places, banking—
and gradually the picture became clearer.
Clear enough to instill fear.
Fear not just among the criminals...
but also among those who never sit in the criminal's chair—only those who pull the strings behind the scenes.
Every Indian was in shock,
but the files in Karkare's case also began to burn—
not literally, but systematically.
Documents that should have been in 100 copies
suddenly went missing.
Witnesses began receiving "notices."
Some officers were removed from the case.
And Karkare started receiving messages.
#Flashback_Ends
---And then—26/11 began.
“This is an attack on the country, you should leave the other case and handle this one.”
Karkare understood—
this attack wasn't just on the city,
it was also on the truth.
Still, he left.
He wore a bulletproof jacket—
but the same jacket that the ATS itself had previously described as “poor quality.”
Why was he given that?
His vehicle was sent on the same route
that everyone in the control room had called the most dangerous.
Yet why was that route finalized?
A few minutes later, shots were fired.
The book writes—
The angle of the bullets was extremely strange.
The hit points didn't match the “expected direction.”
The biggest shock—
Karkare's jacket later “disappeared.”
No one knows how.
The jacket is evidence—
Who needed its disappearance?
And then…
The case Karkare held onto until his death—
was slowly shelved.
Names were changed, statements were altered,
charges were "weakened,"
and slowly—the system won.
▪️
--- But the story doesn't end there.
The real game begins after Karkare's death.
The book says—
On the day of Karkare's funeral, some faces showed relief, not grief.
Who were those faces?
Who found solace in Karkare's death?
Who felt victory, not defeat, that night?
And the most frightening question—
Was 26/11 just a terrorist attack,
or a confluence of two agendas?
First—to intimidate India.
Second—to eliminate an officer
who had reached the bottom of the truth.
▪️▪️
The fires of Karkare's funeral hadn't even cooled down...
But some people looked deeply relieved.
The nation was weeping on TV,
but the real players behind the issue—their inner circle—looked "normal."
There was even a hint of triumph on some faces.
This was enough to understand that
Karkare's death wasn't just the terrorists' work accomplished...
someone else's work was also accomplished.
--- The first attack—on the very case Karkare was investigating.
Just eight days after Karkare's death,
the direction of that case changed completely.
Some major claims are found in the book:
Witnesses who had previously provided detailed information about the blasts and the network suddenly began changing their statements.
They suddenly said in court, "We don't remember... We spoke under pressure."
The book asks this question:
Why wasn't this "pressure" there before?
Why did it suddenly arise only after Karkare's death?
- The evidence against the main accused was declared weak.
The evidence on which Karkare had built his case—evidence, call records, motorcycle number, delivery of explosives—
Suddenly, it was declared:
"His credibility is low."
Sudden promotions and transfers of some officers.
Those who were "stuck" in the case—sidelined.
And those who wanted a safe path—promoted.
The system understood—
Karkare is gone, every turn is now easy.
--- A very scary thing is written in the book:
After Karkare's death,
a new sentence started playing on TV—
"Karkare was a good officer, but he had taken the investigation in the wrong direction."
Hearing this sentence, the real game becomes clear.
Meaning:
First, make him a hero,
Then gradually cast doubt on his investigation, and finally change the core of the case.

This is called—
Assassination of direction, not character.
--- And then the shock that numbs the mind
One of the most important documents in Karkare's files was a taping list
which recorded names, call timings, and secret meetings.
The book claims—
that list disappeared from the files after Karkare's death.
Meaning:
Someone went and touched the files.
And it couldn't have been a small person.
.
.
--- But the real fear—is in the "calm faces"
When Karkare was alive,
many people spoke against him,
but when he died—
some of those same people cried the loudest.
Why?
The book says a line that trembles:
"The truth behind real tears is more dangerous than the truth behind fake smiles."
(Fake tears are more dangerous than genuine smiles.)
Meaning—
Those who feared Karkare's survival,
by showing respect after his death,
were spared their own suspicions.
--And finally—the climax of the book

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'Fidayeen attack is martyrdom operation,' justifies Delhi bomber in video

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Dozens of Kashmiri Muslim doctors were taken into custody for questioning in the Delhi blast case and almost all of them have been released by the police after questioning. No evidence was found against them linking them to any of the blast suspects.

The Jammu and Kashmir police have recovered a mobile phone of the Red Fort suicide bomber, Dr Umar-un-Nabi, and the extracted data has provided chilling evidence to show that he had prepared a video justifying the suicide attack as a 'martyrdom operation'.

Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi

More info : https://www.rediff.com/news/report/delhi-car-bombers-phone-data-reveals-radicalisation-suicide-plans/20251118.htm

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A week after a blast near Delhi's iconic Red Fort claimed 13 lives, a self-recorded and undated video of the bomber, Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, has emerged. In what is arguably the first peek into the thought process of Delhi bomber Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, the video shows him talking about suicide bombing and "martyrdom".

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/video-delhi-bomber-dr-umar-mohammad-umar-nabi-talks-about-suicide-bombing-delhi-i20-car-blast-red-fort-blast-9654215

Demolishing a home won’t deliver “punishment” it only inflicts collective suffering: Aga Ruhullah Mehdi

Making an entire family homeless during the harsh winter of Kashmir without evidence/court order or any law linking them to the incident is an act of cruelty. It doesn’t bring justice to the innocent lives that we lost in the terror attack, and it doesn’t achieve the ends of justice.

Hold the actual perpetrators accountable through lawful investigation. Mass detentions, coercive interrogations, and illegal demolitions will not bring peace, they will drag Kashmir back by decades.

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Directory of Goa Hotels

Goa is one of India’s most famous tourist destinations, known for its sun-kissed beaches, Portuguese heritage, vibrant nightlife, and natural beauty. 

The number of registered hotels in Goa is difficult to determine precisely, but sources indicate figures from around 3,672 hotels and other lodgings as of  October 2025, to as high as over 9,200 registered properties by November 2024, including hotels and homestays.

It also contains 600 addresses of Goa toutr and travel agents.

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From Peacemaker to Prisoner: Yasin Malik Tells Story of Secret State Ties and Betrayal-I

Yasin Malik

 

In a striking affidavit, Malik recounts meetings with prime ministers, Ambani, intelligence chiefs and even Hafiz Saeed at IB’s request, claiming promises of peace were later broken after Article 370’s abrogation.

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Kashmir Central Asia Economic Corridor

KCAEC

The Kashmir Central Asia Economic Corridor-KCAEC refers to the historical Silk Road-era connectivity between the Kashmir region and Central Asia through mountain passes like Zoji La Pass, fostering trade and cultural exchange for centuries. While this vital link was disrupted after the 1947 Partition of India, it remains a geo-strategically significant route with potential for revival to enhance economic ties and connectivity between India and Central Asian nations, although logistical and political challenges currently hinder direct land routes. 

 
Historical Significance:
·         Ancient Trade Route : 
Since ancient times, the Kashmir Valley served as a crucial economic hub, connecting the Indian subcontinent with Central Asia. 

·         Silk Road Connection: 
The region was a key part of the Silk Road, facilitating the movement of goods and cultural exchange between regions. 

·         Key Passes: 
Passes like Zoji La were vital for trade, connecting Kashmir to Ladakh, Central Asia, and Tibet. 

Disruption of the Corridor: 

·         Partition's Impact: 
The partition of the subcontinent in 1947 divided the "Greater Jammu & Kashmir," leading to the closure of these traditional routes and isolating Kashmir from Central Asia.

·         Shift in Focus: 
Kashmir's dependence shifted to the Jawahar Tunnel, and the region moved to the margin of broader trade networks.

Modern Potential and Challenges:

·         Economic Potential: 
Reviving these traditional corridors is argued to be a sound basis for promoting economic integration and fostering stronger ties between India and Central Asia.

 
·         Logistical Barriers: 
Currently, there is a lack of direct land routes between India and Central Asia, making logistics a significant challenge. 

·         Political and Security Factors: 
Security risks, unresolved geopolitical issues, and the desire to avoid reliance on certain existing corridors can complicate efforts to establish new ones. 

·         India's Strategic Interests: 
India seeks to secure energy resources, expand markets for its goods, and establish reliable transit corridors to reduce its dependence on maritime routes. 

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